Solar. Very interesting by @janrosenow.bsky.social
People in Pakistan "ran ahead on deployment and left the institutions trailing. The result is a boom and a crisis happening at the same time, in the same place."
My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.
Phenomenal World Issue 1 is here: AMERICAN POWER
With writing on ‘declinism,’ the dollar, the Donroe Doctrine, Iran, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, China, the Gulf, and more.
Now all online—
phenomenalworld.org/issue/issue-...
How and why do some countries restrict their fossil fuel production?
We explore this in @ripejournal.bsky.social, based on fieldwork in 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇬🇧the UK, 🇨🇴Colombia & 🇨🇷Costa Rica.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Co-authored with @peternewell.bsky.social, @freddiedaley.bsky.social, and Dani Soto.
Critically important points raised by @robkitchin.bsky.social regarding the importance of external, independent, curiosity-led and coherent decision-making on the awarding of research grants to early career researchers.
📣 We've published a new special issue on Insurance and Social Theory!
The issue, guest edited by Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Elena Esposito and Alberto Cevolini, examines the evolving landscape of insurance and how society navigates future uncertainty.
Read the #BJS special issue ⬇️
The recent history of the Chinese financial system on a single slide? @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social has that, and so much more. Absolutely incredible talk on "Finance and the Chinese state" at #financedemocracy.
Out now - The Housing Question, a special themed issue of Rundale that @kathleenstokes.bsky.social and I edited. Featuring 5 really excellent pieces on #housing in Ireland from all across the artist <-> scholar <-> activist spectrum 🌈
www.rundale.org/2026/06/03/t...
It’s out! I’m deeply proud and grateful for this book — especially for the chance to collaborate with such brilliant & bold minds.
Here’s to hoping its ideas spark fresh conversations and inspire meaningful change in our field. #economics #eurocentrism #decolonisation
For those who missed it: the debate @roapejournal.bsky.social between Franklin Obeng-Odoom and Morten Jerven
roape.net/2022/02/08/t...
#econsky @abotebuno.bsky.social @jsecon.bsky.social @isabellamweber.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @heterodoxnews.bsky.social
Ambitious goals to limit global heating cannot be achieved without significant efforts to cut fossil fuel production. Yet, comparative analysis of the international political economy dynamics that ...
In a debate on radical political economy, economics and economists working on Africa, Franklin Obeng-Odoom and Morten Jerven look at the use of statistics, mainstream economics, power, imperialism, pa...
JUST DROPPED: Pakistan's solar boom is one of the energy transition's wildest stories, and nobody planned it.
World's #2 panel importer in 2025, mostly on rooftops. No subsidy, no scheme.
But it also has a dark side.
More in my latest newsletter 👇
janrosenow.substack.com/p/pakistan-t...
Good to see this important contribution. Universities in Ireland must coordinate to resist this change
Economics obscures or is oblivious to the politics embedded in theorization itself. In this book, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social return political questions to the heart of economic theorizing.
See more: www.politybooks.com/...
The fastest distributed-solar rollout in the world happened almost entirely by accident.
My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.
